Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-21

Apie to Render Assistance III They Are
Not Asked--If You Miss Heara, r.
win BE Your Own Fault.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. March 20.-Tbe Rev
{. Dewitt Talmage, d. d., preached in the
shvterian church of this nlaca tb;o
Second kIS-- fOo ''''
morning. He arrived here yesterday from
st. Louis, and is stopping over Sunday on his
way to Topeka, Kan. After expounding an
appropriate chapter he gave out the hymn
beginning:
Jesus, lover OF my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly.
His subject was "Cheer for the Disheart-
ened," and his text, Psalms cxlii. " A: mo
man cared for my soul" DR. Talmage said:
David, the rubicund lad, had become the
battle worn warrior. Three thousand armed
men in pursuit of him, he had hidden in the
cave of Engedi, near the coast of the Dead
Sea- Utterly tagged out with the pursuit. as
You have often been worn out with the trials
of life. he sat down and cried out: "No man
cared for MY soul"
II you should fall through a hatchway, or
slip from scaffolding, or drop through a
skylght, there would be hundreds of people
who would come around and pick up your
body and carry it to your. home or to the
hospital. | saw great crowd of people in
the street, and asked: "What is the matter?"
and found out that poor laboring man had
fallen under sunstroke; and all our eyes were
filled with tears at the thought of his dis
tracted wife and his desolated home
We are oil sympathetic with physical di-
saster, but how little sympathy for spiritual
woesl There are men in this house who have
come to midlife who have never yet been once
personally accosted about their eternal vel
fare. A great sermon dropped into an audi
ence of hundreds of thousands viii do its
work; but if this world is ever to be brought
to God it will be through little sermons
preached to private Christians, to an audi
ence of one. The sisters letter postmarked
at the village-the word uttered in your
hearing, half of smiles and half of tears-the
religious postscript to a business letter-the
card left at the door when you had some kind
of trouble-the anxious look of some one
across church aisle while an earnest sermon
was being preached, swung you into the
kingdom Of God. But there are hundreds of
people in this house who will take the word
that David used III the past tense, and employ
1t in the present tense, and cry out: ''No man
cares for my soul"
You feel as you go out day by day in the
tug and jostle of life that it is every man for
himself. You can endure the pressure of
numerical affairs, and would consider ii
ost impertinent for any one to ask you
9r you are making OF losing money
f~".l.., e have been times when you would
:, ! your check for thousands of dol
th.. would only Eclp your soul out of
, H. There are questions about
&c - ny that ache, and distract,
times. Let no one sup
: ~ ,' are busy all day with
agonize you at Io.,e,nu d., -,
that because you - -
lware, or drygoods., ~I- - 100
your thoughts are no r ano 80; 80
stick, and stop at the b cro ,,ot .
re store counter When !, I,.a. -.oVa
1t religious things you hink - evaS
call you a wording You IA
ding. OF course YOU art, III -
keep busy, but you have la yoN
ed to the realities of Id neAe
are not fool You row .hat
any one can tell You k, 'ow 'i' 1.our
years at most win wi, ID Wy Ito
ny engagements, and that OH N ,Tonr Ia
ence IN distant sphere VIII Ell e,,;tv ",
less adrotness would be a u. y, abos ",
sometimes think till yonr e y. avn "
great religious subjects Yo 1--we " y
rect with your eyes fixed on 0,Gt,aes. y
oblivious of the passing m, u s;r;on. !,
thoughts gone on eternal ex, II of J
wonder if the Bible is true, howl law
teral and how much is fieurati live
rist be God if there is anytbin mr.
utIon, If you are immortal if a va
n will ever take place, what tho 90 I'm
1 your departed kindred is, what crl-
10000 years from now. With On
placidity of countenance Won ara ~
18th agitations of soul. Oh. this solits 20
" OF your whole lifetime, You ba. n
oods to or bought them from Christia :
Tor ten years, and they have neve
ered one word OF spiritual counsel. You
passed up and down the aisles of
les WITH men who knew that Won had
70 of heaven, and talked about the wee-
md about your physical health. and
everything but that concerning which
ost wanted to hear them speak. VIZ
verlasting spirit Times without num.
u have felt in your heart, if you have m
tered it with your lips, ''No man cares tis
soul" flaa
o nave been times when you were es- swu
y phabie on the great subject of re- sthao
IL was SO, Tor instance, after you had name
ur property. You had great MANY IN U
eioWing you DIOR being unfortunate mules
owed ehat there had been concatena- somenl
circumstances and that your ;nsol. chilly b
was no fault of yours. Your creditors fast by
to you as though they would have roo taIIia Il
m the dollar or your life P,,otsst and col
rotest tumbled in on your desk. Men tantalizi
sed to take your hand with both of keeping
nd shake it violently, now pass Won on treading
ct with an almost imperceptible nod by b
x or eight hours of scalding business drunkar
you go home and you shut the door. while Of
ow yourself on the sofa and voa, fee, mering
ate of despair You wish that some coming
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